ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,910, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Autotuning a virtual firewall" was invented by Antony Ruban Alexis (Bangalore, India), Sai Prashanth Ramanathan (Bangalore, India) and Ramasubramaniam Ganesan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive an input associated with deploying a virtual firewall on a computing device. The device may determine a first set of characteristics associated with the virtual firewall and a second set of characteristics associated with a hypervisor associated with the computing device. The device may automatically tune the virtual firewall ba...